The Allotment Mural

≈ 4 min

Read the monologue below and decide: does the speaker's reasoning contain a cognitive distortion, or is this a reasonable reaction? Identify the answer and the phrase that best supports it. This is a puzzle — the person and situation are entirely invented, and nothing here constitutes advice or diagnosis.

The scene

A community allotment site where a hobbyist painter unveiled a hand-painted sign to fellow plot-holders at an end-of-season gathering.

In the differential

Mental filtering
Personalisation
Fortune-telling
Magnification / minimisation
No distortion — a reasonable reaction

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This case first aired on September 14, 2026. A fresh distortion runs every morning — same rules, five minutes, one solution.

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